Letters: Be smart, vote for President Trump; Penn State Athletics should fully reimburse fans
Be smart, vote Trump
President Donald Trump is the greatest president ever. So, why would anyone vote for Joe Biden? Half the time Biden doesn’t know where he is, who he’s with or what office he seeks. He has mispronounced the first name of his own VP pick. Even Barack Obama has said Biden will find a way to screw things up. He’s so bad that Democrats isolate him from public scrutiny. Now there’s talk that he won’t debate Trump.
Biden is a puppet for radical socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders and the four horsewomen of the apocalypse (Reps. Pressley, Omar, AOC and Tlaib). According to “The Jewish Voice,” Biden is now under criminal investigation in the Ukraine for his role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor. Biden called Trump’s China and European travel restrictions “xenophobia” and “fearmongering.” Yet, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Biden’s science hero, testified in a House committee that Trump’s restrictions saved lives.
China wants Biden for president. Wonder why? Biden, a self-described unification candidate, offers separate plans (see Biden website) for just about every group (i.e., women, Blacks, Hispanic, etc.) in the country except protestants, which includes evangelicals, and white men. Doesn’t look very unifying to me.
Biden refuses to denounce the violent anarchist group “Antifa.” Why? Antifa members are part of his voter base and, should he win, he’ll need them to suppress all opposition. Biden is incompetent, weak, corrupt, divisive and dangerous. Be smart. Vote Trump!
Let’s pick a president
I saw someone with a Joe Biden sticker on his car and asked him why. He replied “Because I can’t stand Trump.” I have heard that response before, even from my own sister. Donald Trump certainly is not blessed with the ability to communicate in a sophisticated manner. But being president is a pretty hard job and requires a lot of different skills.
With Trump, my taxes went down, the number of jobs hit record levels, businesses came back to strengthen the economy, my retirement funds hit record levels, bad trade deals got fixed, America became No. 1 in energy production and gas prices have been great.
Biden worries me. Biden wants to raise my taxes substantially. He wants to open borders. Won’t open borders let drug cartels, gangs, more criminals and heroin come in? Biden wants socialized health care. I am very happy with what I have now. When the government takes complete control of stuff, it usually doesn’t work out.
At 78, Biden would be the oldest to ever begin the job. Trump took a neurological test but Biden refuses. Is Biden really strong enough to do this job? If Biden can’t serve, Kamala Harris would be president. She has no relatable experience.
PSU should fully reimburse fans
It is a good thing Sandy Barbour wears a mask. Barbour announced that Penn State Athletics will be keeping approximately $20,000,000 they received from PSU fans, even though PSU will not be providing the product for which those funds were solicited.
The $20,000,000 are the Seat License Fees fees paid by PSU fans to procure football tickets.
Soliciting funds in exchange for a service — and not returning those funds when that service is not provided — is fraud. Despite Barbour’s pleadings, those revenues, the Seat License Fees, are not a donation. The IRS clearly defined that as of 2018. Those fees are funds paid “in exchange for a good or service.”
Though Barbour tries to produce a tear in her eye, pleading that those funds were spent on wonderful things — like scholarships for student-athletes — her pleadings are irrelevant. Whether she spent those funds to pay for new gilded bathroom fixtures for her office, or to feed the hungry, is irrelevant (and, for what it’s worth, 87 cents of every dollar of PSU ICA revenue is spent on things other than the student-athletes ... including her annual compensation, which averages $1.8 million — and another $30 Million in annual administrative overhead).
Every other Big Ten athletic department has, appropriately and legally, offered their fans a refund or a credit for their 2020 seat license fees. Everyone except Sandy Barbour — the nation’s most highly paid public university athletic director.